"Räcker det?"

Translation: Is it enough?

[huntermcjesus]

Would one use "Det räker!" to tell your kids to quit being annoying?

[Zmrzlina]

Yes, that's a perfectly fine usage of the word.

I have a memory from a boring several-hours car trip in my mid-teens where me and my brother spent some two hours beatboxing in the backseat until my mother turned around for the umpteenth time and shouted "DET RÄCKER!" at us. So, well, yeah. It works that way.

[Sonor7]

We need more of these stories :D

[deactivated user]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[AnaBird2]

that made me smile! (:

[MonsieurCal]

that would be fun, like the French 'ça suffit!'

[CapdeBurro]

Can we litterly tranlate "att Räcka" to "To suffice"?

[Lundgren8]

Yes, they mean the same thing. But ”räcka” is used much more than English uses ”suffice”.

[CapdeBurro]

Yea, I know, but the litteral translation of "suffice" in french is used a lot, I just wanted a better landmark

[Anders91]

Yep, that's a good way to look at it.

[travel.linguist]

Es reicht!!!

[LauraKrani]

Genau! :D

[AlanHooker]

Could you translate this, "Is it sufficient?", even though in Swedish it's a verb rather than an adjective?

[Jan-Olav]

Yes, you could. Another possibility is to say 'Är det tillräckligt?'

[edo_farias]

is there any difference between "räcker" and "tillräckligt"?

[sotnosen93]

Not in this context other than that "räcker" is a verb and "tillräckligt" is an adjective, so the sentences are constructed accordingly.

[FunSprint]

Is det supposed to be pronounced like "day" or like "duh" in this example?

[jstnc]

pretty sure "dig' is pronounced like "day"... not entirely sure though.

[exqeriment]

It is.

[Normordm]

What's the difference between det räcker and det är tilräckligt?

[Jack_Boulet]

Does the verb räcka, for all intents and purposes, basically mean "is enough?"

[sotnosen93]

On its own as an intransitive verb, yes. It can also mean to reach something in the construction "räcka upp till", as in "Räcker du upp till hyllan?" ("Can you reach the shelf?"). Think of it as "Are you (tall) enough to reach the shelf" and it makes sense. As a transitive verb it means to hand or pass someone something, often something the person can't reach on their own. "Räck mig saltet." "Hand/Pass me the salt."

[KLTah]

this is gold. have a lingot.

[jennifer856684]

why cant tillrackligt which means enough be used as well

[AndreasWil20]

Uttalet liknar mera räkor än räcker

[Dirkrol.]

Ya basta!